Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
How to Write a Love Story
The Library of Amorlin (The Age of Beasts, #1)
The Book Tour
The Bookstore Diaries
Son of Nobody
The Adjunct
Booked at Midnight (Midnights on the Square #2)
The Sisters of Book Row
All Booked Up
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Eine Seite noch: Warum Lesen uns so glücklich macht - Von der Autorin des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers "Das große Los" - Meike Winnemuth ist zurück! (German Edition)
The Astral Library
This Book Made Me Think of You
The Ending Writes Itself
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
An Academic Affair
How to Write a Love Story
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Ghostwriter
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Not Another Banned Book
Whisper Sweet Nothings (Rosewood River, #6)
The Bookstore Diaries
By Any Other Name
Is This a Cry for Help?
The Last Word
How to Get Away with Murder
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMatilda by Roald DahlThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Books about Books
1,390 books — 1,520 voters

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgeThe Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganThe Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Traveling Libraries
118 books — 27 voters
Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. MartinDouble Love by Francine PascalForever... by Judy BlumeThe Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. CooneyThe Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
Paperback Crush
295 books — 28 voters

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin SloanDewey by Vicki MyronThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books set in libraries or bookstores
254 books — 138 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Reading List
Book Lovers
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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